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[HarmonicCheeseburger]

Volvo V70 passed it's MOT.  

The brake on the rear which was sorted with some cleaning work, had oil + filter, diesel filter, cabin filter, brakes cleaned, fluids of the PS and brake fluid changed *in case it got boiling with the stuck brake during summer* getting 40mpg the drive back home, and the 5cylinder diesel is burbling nicely.

Minor oil leak mentioned from a rocker cover, and will be fixing that just post Xmas. 

[brownnova]

One of the dinner ladies at work said to me yesterday “I saw you on the way to work in your really old red car”

That’ll be the Saab… I don’t think 1997 counts as really old… but the perceptions of others are a strange thing… 

[hairnet]

Right doh

Buy a new one

Oh wait

[New POD]

4 minutes ago, brownnova said:

One of the dinner ladies at work said to me yesterday “I saw you on the way to work in your really old red car”

That’ll be the Saab… I don’t think 1997 counts as really old… but the perceptions of others are a strange thing… 

If you were single, that would count as the start of a *healthy sexual relationship with her in the pantry. 

Point of order. If you had a bloke doing the same job would he be a "Dinner Gentleman"  ?  

 

[SiC]

19 minutes ago, brownnova said:

One of the dinner ladies at work said to me yesterday “I saw you on the way to work in your really old red car”

That’ll be the Saab… I don’t think 1997 counts as really old… but the perceptions of others are a strange thing… 

Or your/we're getting old and it's not fully sunk in. 

I was talking to one of our grads, he had a 172 (cambelt snapped before he got to change it) that was 22years old and now thinking of getting a 986 Boxster which are between 26 to 20 years old. Other grad really wants a E46 330ci or a Z4 - so again looking at between 25 to 19 years old.

Problem is insurance for them. Confused me until I remembered both are 21 year olds. 

 

It's basically like us (I think you're a similar age to me) getting a Capri MK3 or a Cortina ... which most definitely would think as an old car now. 

[captain_70s]

23 minutes ago, SiC said:

Or your/we're getting old and it's not fully sunk in.  

I was speaking to @blackboilersuit about this the other day. His modern is a Fabia estate, which I consider a fairly standard 10 year old car.

It's a 1999 reg...

[EyesWeldedShut]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

If you were single, that would count as the start of a *healthy sexual relationship with her in the pantry. 

Point of order. If you had a bloke doing the same job would he be a "Dinner Gentleman"  ?  

 

Dinner person? 👎

I'm proud to boast a granny that was a Dinner Lady (she also was the toilet attendant* at Ayr Beach and then promoted to the ones near Burns' Cottage) and they're all, always, Dinner Ladies to me. It's a proper job title, no sexism intended.

*not simultaneously with being a dinner lady I would point out

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Our 'kids' reckon pre-2000 motors are dinosaurs. All crap. Not to be seen dead in.
Anything 2000 - 2010 (provided I fix it) is OK but nothing poverty spec or smol (unless a Bini)
2010 - 2020 - (only MB, BMW, Audi and VW) cool but unaffordable. Anything else is 'meh'.
2020 onwards - uber cool but unaffordable/PCP country-- one had a PCP until she lost her job (life lesson learned there as the  single use Bank of (Step) Dad get out of financial jail free card got used)

Anything post 2010 I'd call modern?

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 10/10/2024 at 22:02, lesapandre said:

EU delays biometric entry system - seems indefinitely. Now to see if the visa scheme comes in next year. 

So no changes for the time being at ports.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgey0vvxxw7o

Bet they roll it out on 11/05/2025 - we're booked on Le Shuttle
Telegraph reports it in a neutral tone:  

[lesapandre]

Big pickups - Guardian article. Bit muddled, hysterical and including a very surprising Nazi reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/monster-pickup-trucks-accelerate-europe-sales-rise-safety-fears

I'm always interested in the space between what's legal and what certain section of society don't like. 

Nazi comparisons are never acceptable to make unrelated arguments.

[IronStar]

1 hour ago, captain_70s said:

I was speaking to @blackboilersuit about this the other day. His modern is a Fabia estate, which I consider a fairly standard 10 year old car.

It's a 1999 reg...

I was thinking about this the other day. My modern daily is a 2007 159. In my head it’s a fairly new car. In reality, it will be of legal drinking and voting age next year. I was thinking about what would replace it if need be, but other than Giulia which would probably attempt to bankrupt me in the price range I’d be willing to pay, nothing more modern is interesting to me.

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Our 'kids' reckon pre-2000 motors are dinosaurs. All crap. Not to be seen dead in.
Anything 2000 - 2010 (provided I fix it) is OK but nothing poverty spec or smol (unless a Bini)
2010 - 2020 - (only MB, BMW, Audi and VW) cool but unaffordable. Anything else is 'meh'.
2020 onwards - uber cool but unaffordable/PCP country-- one had a PCP until she lost her job (life lesson learned there as the  single use Bank of (Step) Dad get out of financial jail free card got used)

Anything post 2010 I'd call modern?

How old are they? I’m turning 30 this year, and anything after, say, 2005 is fairly new and modern in my mind until I stop and have a think about it. I obviously don’t mind anything pre ‘00s as evidenced by my cars and membership on here. I honestly don’t think my friends are thinking about it any differently. No one ever said or had a facial expression that said “shit old car” for either 156 or 159. 626 was “how old is this again?” many times.

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Bet they roll it out on 11/05/2025 - we're booked on Le Shuttle
Telegraph reports it in a neutral tone:  

Keep your eye on the Government website:

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/france

Seems unlikely they will have sorted this by then - but Eurotunnel should be fine as there is space for the extra registration required. It's Dover Port which is the headache as there is so little space currently. 

[IronStar]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Bet they roll it out on 11/05/2025 - we're booked on Le Shuttle
Telegraph reports it in a neutral tone:  

Can’t wait to be stuck on Hungarian border when they introduce this. It’s 4+ hours now. I fully expect wait time to be measured in days when the go time comes.

[barefoot]

My daily Scirocco is 37 years old. That's about the same as Steed's Bentley was in the original Avengers and that looks ancient.

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Dinner person? 👎

I'm proud to boast a granny that was a Dinner Lady (she also was the toilet attendant* at Ayr Beach and then promoted to the ones near Burns' Cottage) and they're all, always, Dinner Ladies to me. It's a proper job title, no sexism intended.

*not simultaneously with being a dinner lady I would point out

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Our 'kids' reckon pre-2000 motors are dinosaurs. All crap. Not to be seen dead in.
Anything 2000 - 2010 (provided I fix it) is OK but nothing poverty spec or smol (unless a Bini)
2010 - 2020 - (only MB, BMW, Audi and VW) cool but unaffordable. Anything else is 'meh'.
2020 onwards - uber cool but unaffordable/PCP country-- one had a PCP until she lost her job (life lesson learned there as the  single use Bank of (Step) Dad get out of financial jail free card got used)

Anything post 2010 I'd call modern?

I feel quite lucky that my kids have grown up around Autoshite so don't quite have that bias. 

Who knows what 'my first car' would be for my daughter in 6 or 7 years! I shudder at the thought of navigating 5 owner 140k 1.0 ecobooms or the 1.2 psa grenade engine! There won't be the equivilant of the unbreakable first car fiesta/corsa/polo would there? £300 eV? 

[lesapandre]

'Alan's Funny Stories...'

I'm out and about this morning. In a caff having some toast and coffee.

Someone has found a phone and is trying to explain the location of the caff so the phone owner can drop by. A veteran of being given instructions of how to find addresses for cars for sale I am always amazed how difficult people find it to navigate or give an location.

Bloke: "What's the address of the caff?"

Caff Owner: "Where are you coming from?"

😂

[Dyslexic Viking]

8 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Who knows what 'my first car' would be for my daughter in 6 or 7 years! I shudder at the thought of navigating 5 owner 140k 1.0 ecobooms or the 1.2 psa grenade engine! There won't be the equivilant of the unbreakable first car fiesta/corsa/polo would there? £300 eV? 

Toyota Yaris, Hyundai i10, Kia Picanto and more are good so she don't have to buy any of the wet belt garbage.

[MorrisItalSLX]

4 hours ago, brownnova said:

One of the dinner ladies at work said to me yesterday “I saw you on the way to work in your really old red car”

That’ll be the Saab… I don’t think 1997 counts as really old… but the perceptions of others are a strange thing… 

We had a new young bloke start at work last week and he said to me “So, you’re  into classic cars then?” Yes I said and we had a nice chat about cars and I asked him how he knew I was into classic cars? “Oh, I saw you drive in this morning in your retro Toyota.”

I think of my Corolla as an old car, but I suppose 34 years old is getting up there. I still wouldn’t call it a classic.

[SiC]

3 hours ago, captain_70s said:

I was speaking to @blackboilersuit about this the other day. His modern is a Fabia estate, which I consider a fairly standard 10 year old car.

It's a 1999 reg...

My old Boxster is now 24yrs old.

 

I passed my test in 2003. Back in 2003 my Spitfire was 24 years old too.

🤯

Admittedly the Spitfire was an old design then and a Boxster a new design but it's quite remarkable the pace of automotive change between those 20 years. I'd argue a lot less in the last 20yrs from 2024 to 2000. NVH between a 2024 and 2000 similar class car is pretty much the same, handling similar, performance marginally quicker now and safety similar. Just more driver aids and better fuel economy.

I also remember buying this in 2008 when it was a 15 year old car. It felt positivity an old car even back then. All my cars (apart from my wife's Civic) are older than when I bought this, but my cars don't feel old. Probably because the perspective of age was different for me being younger.

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

Can’t wait to be stuck on Hungarian border when they introduce this. It’s 4+ hours now. I fully expect wait time to be measured in days when the go time comes.

It seems a bit mad to think I can probably get to Hungary quicker than you can! 

[IronStar]

7 minutes ago, SiC said:

I'd argue a lot less in the last 20yrs from 2024 to 2000. NVH between a 2024 and 2000 similar class car is pretty much the same, handling similar, performance marginally quicker now and safety similar. Just more driver aids and better fuel economy.

I think this is it. We were around to see cars getting PAS, ABS, ESP, multizone climate, fog lights, heated seats, mirrors and all the other jazz as standard(ish) in late 90s and early 00s. Give it 20 more before that and none of those things were even optional extras. 
Now on design front things did change (not for the better IMO), but it’s probably more visible to people who are 16 or 18 as those cars were around since they can remember so they think about them as cars when they were 4. 
 

1 minute ago, Yoss said:

It seems a bit mad to think I can probably get to Hungary quicker than you can! 

They are absolutely out of their minds. I really don’t know how did I not get entry denied last couple of times, as I was openly insulting the border police and being fully noncooperative. Didn’t even want to speak Serbian or English to them and acted like I don’t understand a word. 

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Big pickups - Guardian article. Bit muddled, hysterical and including a very surprising Nazi reference.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/monster-pickup-trucks-accelerate-europe-sales-rise-safety-fears

I'm always interested in the space between what's legal and what certain section of society don't like. 

Nazi comparisons are never acceptable to make unrelated arguments.

Hilariously hysterical language; a perfectly reasonable argument(that US pick ups are bloat wagons and should be licenced/inspected/etc alongside commercial vehicles of similar weight, not as PLGs) utterly submerged in a bath of frothing nonsense. 

[Popsicle]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

'Alan's Funny Stories...'

I'm out and about this morning. In a caff having some toast and coffee.

Someone has found a phone and is trying to explain the location of the caff so the phone owner can drop by. A veteran of being given instructions of how to find addresses for cars for sale I am always amazed how difficult people find it to navigate or give an location.

Bloke: "What's the address of the caff?"

Caff Owner: "Where are you coming from?"

😂

The 'Where are you coming from' bit happens so often, then they speak as if you are a related and a local, 'turn left at the Dog & Duck, then right at our Tonys place, go over the hill round the bend and its the 21st house on the left next door to our Pats, but you can't get to the front door that way you'll need to go round the back down the lane by mad Petes and the knocking shop'. FFS man just give me the street name and number or post code, I'll find it.

[cort1977]

28 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Hilariously hysterical language; a perfectly reasonable argument(that US pick ups are bloat wagons and should be licenced/inspected/etc alongside commercial vehicles of similar weight, not as PLGs) utterly submerged in a bath of frothing nonsense. 

I read that and thought the same as you. Also thought of all the millions of full size vans in Europe that are also high up and weigh three tonnes loaded.

The graun seems to rely more on freelancers to fill space these days.

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

Point of order. If you had a bloke doing the same job would he be a "Dinner Gentleman"  ?  

Further point of order. Why are they called Dinner Ladies when they work at lunchtime?

[IronStar]

Yesterday, the Commission for the Protection of Competition initiated proceedings against four retail chains after raiding their offices and an office of a price comparison website due to the suspicion that the retail chains violated competition by concluding a restrictive (price fixing) agreement.

These 4 hold over 50% of market share in Serbia.

Now, I’m not shocked they are fixing the prices, this was obvious to everyone for ages. I’m shocked that they took it so far or forgot to bribe the authorities so it’s actually getting investigated. I fully expect this to go nowhere and business to resume as usual.

Google translate link:

https://www-danas-rs.translate.goog/vesti/ekonomija/komisija-za-zastitu-konkurencije-trgovinski-lanci-cene/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[artdjones]

33 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Further point of order. Why are they called Dinner Ladies when they work at lunchtime?

They're there to serve cheap food to working class brats, so the title is something that will be understood by those they serve.

[reb]

10 minutes ago, artdjones said:

They're there to serve cheap food to working class brats, so the title is something that will be understood by those they serve.

I worked in a posh school full of definitely not working class brats, being served not cheap food, they were still called dinnerladies

[clayts450]

20 year old Rover Streetwise in no advisories shocker. 

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, clayts450 said:

20 year old Rover Streetwise in no advisories shocker. 

Probably one of the only few who do get a clean sheet nowadays of the ones left, nice one 👌

[Snake Charmer]

On 10/10/2024 at 18:41, Popsicle said:

Make your own access panel, thats what angle grinders are for.... 🤠

I certainly would if it was my car, my father cut one in his Rover P6 for the rear calipers.

I now have a suitably bent cheap spanner for bleeding E-Type rear brakes and no great desire to do another!